Slow but inevitable?
John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the
District of Connecticut, announced that GEORGE GAROFANO, 26, of North
Branford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden
in Bridgeport to eight months of imprisonment, followed by three
years of supervised release, for engaging in a phishing scheme that
gave him illegal access to more than 200 Apple iCloud accounts, many
of which belonged to members of the entertainment industry.
According to court documents and statements made
in court, from April 2013
through October 2014, GAROFANO engaged in a phishing
scheme to obtain usernames and passwords for iCloud accounts.
GAROFANO admitted that he sent e-mails to victims that appeared to be
from security accounts of Apple and encouraged the victims to send
him their usernames and passwords, or to enter them on a third-party
website, where he would later retrieve them.
An addition to my list of similar articles for
other social media.
Why bother inventing falsehoods when the truth is
bad enough? Is this the path to Ad Revenue?
Liker, a
Facebook Alternative for Liberals, Is Hive of False Claims About
Trump
In the world of the anti-Trump Facebook
#Resistance, no one has a bigger soapbox than Omar Rivero, the
founder of the Occupy Democrats Facebook page.
Along with his brother Rafael, Rivero has amassed
7 million followers and an
estimated six figures in monthly ad revenue for the page
with viral-ready videos and infographics. In 2017, the Miami New
Times noted
that Occupy Democrats has more influence on Facebook “than
virtually any other news source in America.”
But Rivero’s success has also brought attention
to Occupy Democrats’ relaxed attitude toward the truth. Occupy
Democrats has repeatedly been dinged by fact-checking sites for
posting exaggerated or invented news stories, earning several
“pants on fire” ratings from PolitiFact and amassing
a number of mentions on hoax-debunking site Snopes. Brooke
Binkowski, a journalist who covered Occupy Democrats as the managing
editor of Snopes, told The Daily Beast that the page’s headlines
were often “extremely misleading.”
I know some people who could have saved a lot of
money had this been the rule of the land a few years ago.
Important
Appeals Court Ruling States Clearly That Merely Having An IP Address
Is Insufficient For Infringement Claims
Tons of copyright lawsuits (and even more
copyright trolling shakedowns that never even reach court) are based
on one single bit of data: the IP address. We've seen numerous
district courts reject
using a bare
IP address as evidence
of infringement, but now we have a very important (even if short
and to the point) ruling in the 9th Circuit that could
put a serious damper on copyright trolling.
In this copyright action, we consider whether a bare allegation that a defendant is the registered subscriber of an Internet Protocol (“IP”) address associated with infringing activity is sufficient to state a claim for direct or contributory infringement. We conclude that it is not.
The case involved well known copyright trolling
lawyer Carl Crowell representing Cobbler Nevada LLC. As we discussed
in our article on the district
court decision, the actions in this case were particularly
nefarious. Crowell quickly learned that the IP address in question
belonged to an adult foster care home, but decided to go after the
operator, Thomas Gonzales, even though he was aware that any of the
many residents or staff may have actually been responsible for the
infringement. Gonzales (reasonably) refused to just cough up the
names and details of residents and staff without a court order, and
Crowell's response was just to go after Gonzales directly. But the
facts of this case made it especially easy for the lower court to
highlight how a mere IP address is not nearly enough to allege
infringement.
… The only connection between Gonzales and the infringement was that he was the registered internet subscriber and that he was sent infringement notices. To establish a claim of copyright infringement, Cobbler Nevada “must show that [it] owns the copyright and that the defendant himself violated one or more of the plaintiff’s exclusive rights under the Copyright Act.” Ellison v. Robertson, 357 F.3d 1072, 1076 (9th Cir. 2004). Cobbler Nevada has not done so.
A resource for my Data Management students.
Data
Management University
Another non-automotive company plans to enter the
electric vehicle market.
Dyson's EV
ambitions include 10 miles of test tracks
Dyson is most definitely serious about its plans
to release
an electric vehicle. The company has outlined its proposed
second growth phase for its EV development facility at Hullavington
Airfield, and the plans are more than a little ambitious. Its
application would create more than 10 miles of test tracks around the
former base, including specialized tracks for hill and off-roading
tests. You'd also see more than 480,000 square feet of new new
development space with room for 2,000-plus workers.
For my students who like to watch videos while I
lecture.
Students
can stream Spotify, Hulu, and Showtime all for less than $5 a month
Listen to your favorite music, watch your favorite
shows, and catch up on a few series you couldn't watch before with
this expanded bundle from
Spotify that now includes Hulu and Showtime. Spotify first
teamed up with Hulu late last year to offer a similar service, but
Showtime is a new addition that doesn't add anything to the price.
That's a great combo of programs, especially if you don't have cable
but do have access to some high-speed Internet. You will need to
prove you're attending a Title
IV accredited institution to get the deal, so no fooling
the system.
The bundle includes a subscription to Spotify
Premium, Hulu with Limited Commercials, and Showtime streaming
services. The Hulu
subscription is regularly $7.99 a month by itself. Spotify
Premium is $9.99 and Showtime
is $10.99 a month when purchased directly. There are lots of ways to
get discounts on all of these services, but getting all three
together for $4.99 is nuts.
He could be talking about my students!
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